Category: Books & Reading

Do you have a travel bucket list? I do, but it’s non-specific. It would be cool to go to see a baseball game in every major league ballpark. I’d love to do one of many running vacations that are out there. It would be awesome to go to Alsace, France…

 What do you do when you lose your partner in life? That’s the question asked in Anne Leigh Parrish’s The Amendment. Main character Lavinia Starkhurst loses her husband in a freak accident. She then decides to go on a road trip on a bit of a whim to see all the…

Sometimes, you need a novel that will be not only a fun read, but one that leads to some insight into the human condition. In Elizabeth Isaac’s The Scythian Trials, Part dystopia, part science fiction, The Scythian Trials focuses on a strong female main character, Anya Thalestris. Not only is she one of…

In Sweta Srivastava Vikram’s novel, Louisiana Catch, Ahana has fled her mother’s death – taking her from New Delhi to New Orleans. She’s working to increase awareness about violence against women. While she works on this project at an Annual Conference, she meets Rohan Brady. At her support group, she meets…

They say you can never go home again. Whether that’s actually true or not, one of the big fiction tropes I see a lot is the story of someone who has made a successful life for himself or herself elsewhere in the world, but now finds that it’s time to…

Two crimes, 20 years apart, in the same location plague a community. Gilly Macmillan’s I Know You Know keeps readers involved from the moment they pick up the novel.  I’ve been on a bit of a quick and easy reads kick lately, namely because I’ve been sick, training for a half…

Candace N. Ford’s The Agitated Agenda is the first book in a contemporary new adult series about what happens when main character Priscilla Richardson had her life fully planned and figured out. Here’s a Q&A with the author and entrepreneur.  Candace N. Ford Answers Questions As a child, what did you want to…

I love fashion. I know I haven’t talked about my love for fashion a lot on this blog, other than when I’m talking about creating it, but it is one of my passions. That’s why, when I was offered a review copy of The Stylist by Rosie Nixon, I was happy…